Fee Maxima

Campaigns to address student debt have also focused on student fees which continue to increase despite the government introducing a fee maxima policy. Fee maxima was meant to lead to certainty for students about tuition fees, the only thing certain about Labour's fee maxima policy is that fees will rise! In 2004 students are paying at least $15 million more in tuition fees. Students have been campaigning for a change to the fee maxima policy. Students need a policy that sees across the board fee reductions not constant fee increases, bigger student loans and even longer repayment times. Student campuses around the country have been campaigning to fight fee increases in council fee setting meetings. Press release[See files Below]

An initiative of the Government to stem rising tertiary institution fees. The fee maxima will see institutions only being able to set fees up to a maximum. However, NZUSA called on the Government to set these maxima at a low level.

Government did listen to students this year and actually slightly improved their fee maxima policies by introducing an annual fee increase limit - and by cutting postgrad annual fee increases to $500. Attention has moved (for a while) from government to what's happening on campus and fees setting. Press release[See files below]